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25 
26 package com.sun.corba.se.spi.transport ;
27 
28 import com.sun.corba.se.spi.transport.CorbaContactInfoList ;
29 
30 import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.IOR ;
31 import com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb.ORB;
32 
33 /** Interface used to create a ContactInfoList from an IOR, as required
34  * for supporting CORBA semantics using the DCS framework.  This is a
35  * natural correspondence since an IOR contains the information for
36  * contacting one or more communication endpoints that can be used to
37  * invoke a method on an object, along with the necessary information
38  * on particular transports, encodings, and protocols to use.
39  * Note that the actual implementation may support more than one
40  * IOR in the case of GIOP with Location Forward messages.
41  */
42 public interface CorbaContactInfoListFactory {
43     /**
44      * This will be called after the no-arg constructor before
45      * create is called.
46      */
setORB(ORB orb)47     public void setORB(ORB orb);
48 
create( IOR ior )49     public CorbaContactInfoList create( IOR ior ) ;
50 }
51